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Jacques Toubon reports that some Parisian police stations have since 2012 issued discriminatory instructions for identity checks. He asks the Minister of the Interior to inspect all the police stations in the capital.
In an opinion issued on April 2 and disclosed on Sunday , the 14 th , the Defender of Rights " notes " that " discriminatory orders and instructions to carry out identity checks of " black and North African gangs " in a defined sector, and systematic evictions of "homeless and Roma" were broadcast "by the police of an unidentified district.
The orders, mentions of service and instructions incriminated, existed at least between 2012 and 2018. They " would leave presume " that the police brigade relief and protection would engaged in discriminatory interventions likely to engage the responsibility of the prefect of Paris police ".
With regard to homeless and Roma excluded, the Defender also emphasizes the " absence " of " findings of harmful individual behavior ", " precise legal framework " and " any information on the actual care of people being in the street and evacuated . "
A practice "persistent and assumed"
Practices that continue after " the withdrawal of the instructions in dispute ", since the evacuation of " persons of Roma origin because of their only membership in this population was observed in two police stations of tourist areas and, in any state of cause, seems persistent and assumed by the DSPAP as useful in the fight against delinquency .
As a result, the former Keeper of the Seals claims to Christophe Castaner " an inspection of the whole " of the Parisian police stations. The facts spread over several years, they do not question the current head of the police headquarters, said one in the entourage of the Defender of Rights.
(With AFP)